USVA Inventors

An inventor is a _______ who creates something.

• person

• animal

• steel

• invention

Alexander Graham Bell was a famous....

• baseball player

• inventor

• singer

Alexander Graham Bell invented the...

• telephone

• light bulb

• sleeper car

• typewriter

Thomas Edison invented the __________.

• time zones

• lightening rod

• light bulb

• telephone

The Bessemer process, invented by Henry Bessemer, was created to produce...

• cotton
• peanuts
• steel
• electricity

C.F. Dowd created ______________. There are four in The United States.

• time zones

• telephones

• steel

• oil wells

Christopher Sholes was an inventor. The typewriter was his __________________.

• invent

• invented

• invention

• inventor

A person who ___________ something new is an inventor.

• invention (noun)

• inventor (noun)

• buys (verb)

• invents (verb)

The sleeper car was invented by ____________.

• George Pullman

• Mr. Frank

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Christopher Sholes

Oil wells were invented and started by _________________.

• Christopher Sholes

• CF Dowd

• Edwin Drake

• Thomas Edison